Everyone ascended, but I didn't get on board

Chapter 225 Old Friends Finally Reunite

Without hesitation, Qiu Ci flew in the direction of the navigation and left Yinxian City. From afar, she could feel a series of unfamiliar pressures coming from ahead, carrying the aura of immortal power.

It's obvious that there are many immortals ahead, and many of them are at least at the Earth Immortal level.

At the same time, the jade pendant at her waist emitted bursts of red light. This was her token of identity as a rogue cultivator in Yinxian City, which would shatter immediately if she left the city's boundaries. Yi Hongyu had told her that rogue cultivators who left Yinxian City without permission were considered traitors and would be wanted by the entire Eastern Immortal Realm. If she continued to move forward, the token would immediately break.

How to do?
She looked at the map on the screen, but the unfamiliar presence she sensed was growing stronger, and the red dot marking Juanshan on the map remained unchanged. This meant either Juanshan had been captured, or he was simply unable to move.

Qiu Ci gritted her teeth and decided to ignore everything else and find the person first.

With a thought, the sword beneath his feet instantly accelerated and sped away into the distance, while the jade pendant at his waist shattered in response.

With the dog system's navigation, she was significantly faster than her pursuers. In less than 15 minutes, she arrived at the location, a valley with lush vegetation that was perfect for hiding. However, there was no sign of human presence around her. If it weren't for the system's prompts, she wouldn't have noticed the cave nearby.

Without hesitation, she went straight in. The cave was dark and smelled of decay. There was hardly any sign of life, let alone any immortal energy. Then, familiar sword energies slashed towards her. She instinctively dodged and cried out, "Juanshan!"

The sword energy paused abruptly, then vanished completely. The stone wall in front of them twisted, revealing a blood-soaked figure—it was none other than Juan Shan, whom they hadn't seen in a long time. "Master..."

Juanshan stared blankly at her, then a smile appeared on his face, his tense body instantly relaxed, and he fell forward.

"Juanshan!" Qiu Ci was startled and quickly caught him. Upon closer inspection, she realized how severe his injuries were; he was almost covered in blood. His body was covered in various wounds, with a hole in his chest, his meridians were in disarray, and his consciousness had been severely damaged. "How did you get so badly injured?"

If it weren't for the fact that she had personally sculpted this familiar face, Qiu Ci wouldn't have believed that the person in front of her was Juan Shan. Her heart sank immediately, and she quickly took out a few pills and stuffed them into his mouth, only to find that his injuries showed no signs of improvement.

"What's going on? Even ninth-grade pills aren't working?"
After trying four or five pills without any improvement, she finally realized that the pills from the lower realms might not work on immortals. But she hadn't had time to refine pills since ascending to the upper realm; all the pills she had were made in the lower realms. What should she do?
She gritted her teeth and directly called out to the system, "Damn system, come out here." Since the pills from the lower realm were useless, she would use those from the upper realm.

"Here I am, Master!" The little ball of light immediately popped out.

"Those systems you've consumed, don't they often conjure up pills as rewards? You should have those functions now, right? Quick, get out a healing pill."

[Master, those pills and magical artifacts are all automatically processed using spiritual power. Although I have the processing program, I don't have the materials.]

"..." What should we do then? Should we go back to Yinxian City? But there will only be more people from Yinxian City hunting down Juanshan.

[However, Master, I discovered that they all have something called a "shop," and it's the kind that connects all systems online, where you can find ready-made celestial elixirs.]

"Then what are we waiting for? Let's hurry up," she urged.

However, we don't have a points system as currency. If we directly invade, we might be discovered by that so-called supreme god.

"We can't worry about that now, let's get the medicine!" Saving people is the priority.

[Yes, Master. Hacking into the system shop... Beep beep, hacking successful... Looting items from the shop...]

The dog pack started flashing its indicator lights again, one red and one green, and even displayed garbled characters. The next moment, a flash of light appeared, followed by a series of beeping sounds.

Inside the cave, it started raining down all sorts of medicine bottles, instantly covering the ground.

"...No, I asked for a healing pill, how many did you rob me of?" Qiu Ci's lips twitched.

[Huh!] The little dog paused for a moment. [Didn't Master say he wanted some pills? So I cleared out the entire pill section of the shop.] Anyway, intrusions are free.

Autumn Farewell: "..."

Never mind, the child meant well.

Qiu Ci scanned the pile of pill bottles with her divine sense before selecting one for healing, one for repairing meridians, and one for nourishing the divine sense. After scanning them and finding no problems, she fed them to Juan Shan one by one.

It has to be said that the elixir is truly extraordinary. Juan Shan's injuries began to heal visibly, and the hole in his chest also began to heal. Qiu Ci quickly formed hand seals and transmitted some immortal power to him, and only then did Juan Shan slowly open his eyes.

"Master? We've finally found you..." Juanshan paused, then suddenly remembered something, his expression changing as he said, "That's right, Lord Chen! Master, Lord Chen was severely injured while saving me, please save it!"

"Xiao Er?" Qiu Ci was startled. No wonder she hadn't seen Xiao Er's ball of light. "Let me see!"

She formed a hand seal on Juanshan's forehead and probed into his sea of ​​consciousness. Instantly, she found Xiao Er's true form and took it out. Upon closer inspection, she discovered that the originally golden ball of light was now grayish, as if it would completely darken at any moment.

"Damn system, check what's going on?"

"Master, Xiao Er must have been attacked very strongly, exhausting all its energy, causing data corruption and bringing it to the brink of collapse." The dog group's golden light swept across the area and instantly arrived at the result.

"I'm entrusting this to you. Can you cure it?" she asked.

[No problem, Master! It was originally my subsystem. Just re-flash the device and recharge it. I have an incredible amount of energy right now!] The light orb of the dog system instantly grew larger and merged Xiao Er back into it.

"What exactly happened?" Qiu Ci asked.

Juanshan then recounted everything that had happened since her ascension. She had ascended to the Western Immortal Realm, and as she had guessed, Xiao Er's existence was not discovered there. However, Juanshan still became a rogue immortal. But unlike the Eastern Immortal Realm, rogue immortals in the Western Immortal Realm had to spend a hundred years mining immortal crystals in the immortal mines.

At first, Juanshan knew she wasn't in the Immortal Realm, so he honestly kept mining until Xiao Er detected that she had also ascended.

"I originally thought that although the Immortal Realm was harsh on rogue immortals, it was still reasonable. They only needed to mine and hand over some immortal crystals every day, which could be considered as tempering their bodies. Later, I secretly investigated and found that this was not the case." Juanshan frowned deeply. "The Immortal Realm does not treat rogue immortals as immortals, or even as human beings. They secretly extract the cultivation and lifespan of rogue immortals regularly to use for refining weapons or reinforcing magic arrays. Every once in a while, a few rogue immortals will disappear from the immortal mines."

"Xiao Er detected that you have ascended to the upper realm. I originally intended to inform you of this, but I was discovered halfway through." He sighed and said with some regret, "I originally wanted to take the opportunity to sneak out of the city, but unfortunately I encountered a Celestial Immortal. Most of my injuries are due to this. It was only because Lord Chen exhausted his energy that I was able to escape and get here."

With the recent holidays, things have been a bit busy at home, but I'll try my best to keep things updated.